Lessee here...
Since you asked my opinion...
how large in diameter could i go before i started to run into problems.
I dunno.
You asking for a black and white answer to a grey question again ain't cha boy!?
So, last question to be opined first, you asked:
does using cast vs. jacketed bullets make a difference?
And I say, maybe! Depending on what difference you are talking about!
But let's say you mean "optimum" bore fit. Uh Oh!
There's that word again!
(this is a not so private joke for those that didn't read our last exchange.
) But first I'll tell ya, even though I've got plenty of experience running off with the mouth about things I know nothing about, I'll leave cast bullets to someone else. I'm still playing with them my own self.
With that caveat, you said:
i mic'ed the bore and cylinder throats...the throats are perfect at .4520
You also said:
.452 is where my BH is bored,
And your question was:
can i go to .454 or is that just to big ?
If we assume that jacketed bullets will swage down to a degree (interesting note here, my hunting buddy once fired a .308 Win in his .270 Ruger #1.
Don't try this at home kiddys, this guys an expert!
), I imagine we could deduce that we could fire a .454 jacketed bullet in a .452 barrel. I wouldn't waste the time, but that's not what you asked...
Hi-ebber, and day always be a hi-ebber,
if we make a couple a more assumtions like:
1) if a bullet's diameter is sufficient to engage the rifling of the bore without stripping at the desired velocity, it is of sufficient diameter for that caliber;
2) gas "blow-by" is not a concern with jacketed bullets;
we can, by this logic, say we can also shoot the .451 bullets without concern. And, since you always through in the "optimal" word, if the throats are .452, and the barrel is .452, and we don't want to concern ourselves with "he possible effects of "slugging up" or "swaging down," guess what we would use.
BTW, my "perfect" throat/bore combination would be .4525 and .4520. That's my uppercrainial extraction of extrapolated data (an off the top of my head personal opinion!
)
Finally you ask:
should i stay at .452's or where is the wiggle room end ?
I say, and remember we are only talking about jacketed bullets here, that depends on a number of things like what diameters are available in the bullet I want to use, or have on hand, or like, or were given to me, or really want to try, or... well, you get the idea.
Okay guys! This is the seminal word on jacketed bullets!
No room for argument here!
What I wanna hear is all y'all learned opinion on cast bullets!
Oh DARN!
Did I just hi-jack your thread there Scibaer poopsie?
